CTSA - Community Engagement   Tags: ctsa translational_research  

Progress in Community Health Partnerships: The mission of this journal is to facilitate dissemination of programs that use community partnerships to improve public health, to promote progress in the methods of research and education involving community health partnerships, and to stimulate action that will improve the health of people in communities. (U Mass Med internal access only)

UMCCTS Scholarly Publishing.  Access to online articles, abstracts and retreat proceedings from the U Mass Center for Clinical and Translational Science

CDC WONDER

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a whole host of statistical and data resources available for researchers in the publich health arena. One of these is CDC WONDER (Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research). WONDER provides statistical research data published by the CDC, as well as reference materials, reports, and guidelines on health-realted topics. Data sets are available on many topics, including:

• mortality
• cancer incidence
• HIV and AIDS
• tuberculosis
• vaccinations
• births
• census data

Data is available to be viewed online or can be exported for further analysis.

A community engaged research approach can enable researchers and community partners to conduct research to improve health. To help both researchers and community partners working with this approach, we have collected a wealth of information to assist with understanding health status and issues in Massachusetts communities, learning more about community-engaged research, and developing proposals for future work. Please use the tabs above to find information that you may need. As you will see, there are tabs to help find national, state, and regional health data. In addition, here are tabs with information on community-engaged research training, tips to understanding statistics, examples of community programs with evidence that they work, and research ethics. Please feel free to send us questions or comments as they arise so that we may offer assistance that you may need.

This Library Resource Guide has been created as a collaboration of the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science’s Community-Engagement & Research Core and the Lamar Soutter Library of the UMass Medical School.